Thanks for making Trump's point better than he makes it. He and many Americans, myself included, look across the ocean at Europe's Muslim problems, and say that's something we don't want here. So he issues travel bans, and wants immigration policies that let people in "who want to love America and not be separate from it when they get here." So why do Europeans so hate Trump? He's just taking your position. Yet you attack him when he mentions Sweden when his point is to show all the crime in Muslim areas of Europe. Europeans who post here should be commending Trump for not wanting to follow the European path. Instead, all we hear are knee-jerk reactions to Trump hating the very policies he wants to implement to avoid similar problems here.
Finally, having lost my niece, my sister's only daughter, to the terrorists on 9-11, I woke up a long time ago and took the cold shower of reality.
"Exactly what we don't want here.
But the hypocrisy of Europeans who attack Trump while they beat up Muslims and marginalize them is pretty amazing. I suppose it's easier for them to point a finger than take responsibility for their own problems."... Alan Klein.
That's not making Trump's point at all: Trump's ìs to ignore the laws of his own land and make it all up on the fly - just like the Turk! Frankly, there's not a huge difference between them except the colour of their hair. Both want to have a dictatorship of their own.
Furthermore, nobody marginalizes them (Islamics): as with so many ethnic/religious groupings they choose to stay within their own tight communities where they live as they please and respect the laws of
their own little world and (in their new environment) sub-culture. But don't imagine it's a position reserved for non-whites: take a look around Europe and you find Brits do exactly the same thing: they group and seldom make a friend outwith their own nationality. And much for the same reasons, excluding religion - which most don't really care about anyway, but because they are either too lazy or too stupid to try and learn the language of the new country they decided to call home. Of course, even after living abroad for forty years, some still refer to Britain as 'home'!
The problem with Trumpian politics such as banning entire countries, is that it turns entire countries into foes, and I think it would be quite a stetch to imagine that all those millions of people had felt that way before the attempts to split the world. As for what it does for the people of similar origins (as the banned) now resident and citizens of the US is anybody's guess, but I'd suggest nothing good.
If you want to 'cleanse' a country of troublemakers, good idea, but first let them
make the trouble and then hoof the ones who have made it straight out.
Failure to implement the above is one of the reasons that Brexit became so strogly ingrained in some minds: they saw the abuses of British hospitality and the abject failure of governments to act. That the failures to act may have been based on European as against UK law is always a possibility, but it would have made sense for the government to have taken that point up with the Europeans first, not getting into the situation where the UK can easily split up too.
As I said before: it's a mess.
